• Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    They ironically got hit with a genocide from the same people who did it to the Jews. Twenty-seven million dead at the hands of the nazis.

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      3 months ago

      That wasn’t a genocide, though, at least on the Nazis’ part, it was just war… (now, Stalin deciding who to send to that meat grinder could have been a tad genocidal, but if I recall correctly they practically ended up sending anyone available, so probably not…)

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        3 months ago

        The majority of the deaths were civilians.

        But if you want to get hyper-technical, communists were among those sent to the camps in Hitler’s purges.